After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future /
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| Imprint: | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012. |
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| Description: | ix, 380 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory and interpretation of narrative Theory and interpretation of narrative series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8735865 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction "After" Testimony: Holocaust Representation and Narrative Theory
- Part I. The Powers and Limits of Fiction
- 1. Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: Fiction as Testimony
- 2. Challenges for the Successor Generations of German-Jewish Authors in Germany
- 3. Recent Literature Confronting the Past: France and Beyond
- 4. Performing a Perpetrator as Witness: Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes
- 5. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Backward Narration in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
- Part II. Intersections/Border Crossings
- 6. The Face-to-Face Encounter in Holocaust Narrative
- 7. Knowing Little, Adding Nothing: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Remembering in Espen Søbye's Kathe, Always Lived in Norway
- 8. "When facts are scarce": Authenticating Strategies in Writing by Children of Survivors
- 9. Objects of Return
- 10. Narrative, Memory, and Visual Image: W. G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz
- 11. Which Narrative of Auschwitz? A Narrative Analysis of Laurence Rees's Documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'the Final Solution
- 12. Moving Testimonies: "Unhomed Geography" and the Holocaust Documentary of Return
- Part III. The Holocaust and Others
- 13. From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount: Binding and Unbinding the Israeli Narrative
- 14. The Melancholy Generation: Grossman's Book of Interior Grammar
- 15. Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips
- 16. Hiroshima and the Holocaust: Tales of War and Defeat in Japan and Germany-A Contrastive Perspective
- Contributors
- Index
